Why I shouldn't be a blue belt

[skribs]

There is a gi choke that specifically does that. You pass guard in to side control and basically put the choke on yourself.

I have literally done a cross-collar on myself (thought I was grabbing my opponent's sleeve). But that was before this thread started.

 

[Darren]

Exhibit  Z

yeah well the instructor tells me move,that's what i did right into the choke.

 

[skribs]

Exhibit AA: Lack of situational awareness

Helping out with the kid's class, there's 5 coaches (including me). We're all in a line. The head coach is getting ready to start the technique demonstration. When he says the word "take-down", the other three coaches all take a step back. When he turns to find a uke, I'm the first one he sees.

 

[HighKick]

Exhibit AA: Lack of situational awareness

Helping out with the kid's class, there's 5 coaches (including me). We're all in a line. The head coach is getting ready to start the technique demonstration. When he says the word "take-down", the other three coaches all take a step back. When he turns to find a uke, I'm the first one he sees.

You live and you better learn!

 

[Tigerwarrior]

Fun fact:Helio gracies official rank from his teacher was blue belt. Ranking was different back then. In real old days 2 belts, blue, and white. Blue belts for instructors, white belts for students.

 

[skribs]

Exhibit AB: Punched myself with my opponent's fist while isolating his arm for the armbar. When his grip finally broke, smacked myself in the face.

Exhibit AC: Punched myself with my opponent's fist trying to set up a hip bump sweep. I broke his posture, expected him to lean back to regain it. He didn't lean back. I headbutted his fist with my nose.

 

[skribs]

Exhibit AD: My joints cracked so loud yesterday my Professor considered it a verbal tap.

He was actually scared for a minute that I broke something.

 

[HighKick]

Exhibit AD: My joints cracked so loud yesterday my Professor considered it a verbal tap.

He was actually scared for a minute that I broke something.

I had to laugh at that one. My body loudly cracks and pops so much, I would interrupt the whole class.
I have lost enough disc space and cartilage that the facets in my back rub on each other, making loud popping sounds all the time.
Heck, I even get looks at Walmart.

 

[skribs]

Exhibit AE: A white belt guillotined me 3 times while I was trying to work on shooting for take-downs.
Judge's note: Exhibit AE was stricken from the record, because Professor was not looking at that time.

Exhibit AF, for the Defense: I got a really sweet take-down on that white belt.
Judges note: Let the record show that Professor saw this and said, "Good job."

Exhibit AG: Two seconds later, I lost my balance and the white belt swept me.
Judge's note: Exhibit AG was stricken from the record, because Professor was not looking at that time.

Circumstantial: Witnesses report hearing the white belt say, "Oh of course Professor didn't see that."

 

[drop bear]

Exhibit AE: A white belt guillotined me 3 times while I was trying to work on shooting for take-downs.
Judge's note: Exhibit AE was stricken from the record, because Professor was not looking at that time.

Exhibit AF, for the Defense: I got a really sweet take-down on that white belt.
Judges note: Let the record show that Professor saw this and said, "Good job."

Exhibit AG: Two seconds later, I lost my balance and the white belt swept me.
Judge's note: Exhibit AG was stricken from the record, because Professor was not looking at that time.

Circumstantial: Witnesses report hearing the white belt say, "Oh of course Professor didn't see that."

I do a different sort of double leg. Mostly because I struggled to run through with a room full of guys. And some people were not comfortable with falling.

So I go down to both knees. Grab high under the bum circle my arms together. Bring them back down untill I have their knees together and just wiggle them over.

But what I found doing that is my head was up and my back was straight. Preventing the guillotine.

 

[skribs]

I do a different sort of double leg. Mostly because I struggled to run through with a room full of guys. And some people were not comfortable with falling.

So I go down to both knees. Grab high under the bum circle my arms together. Bring them back down untill I have their knees together and just wiggle them over.

But what I found doing that is my head was up and my back was straight. Preventing the guillotine.

The take-downs I'm starting to be more successful with are more like standing pressure passes, if that makes sense.

 

[skribs]

Exhibit AH
I hit a really nice sweep on a guy much bigger than me today. Perfectly timed, perfectly executed. He pretty much went flying and it was easy for me to get on top.

I have no idea what I did, how I did it, or how to do it again.

 

[isshinryuronin]

Exhibit AH
I hit a really nice sweep on a guy much bigger than me today. Perfectly timed, perfectly executed. He pretty much went flying and it was easy for me to get on top.

I have no idea what I did, how I did it, or how to do it again.

You were in the "void" where action takes place outside of thinking, or even consciousness. You don't need to know what you did or how you did it. "Knowing" how to do it again, or perhaps more accurately, allowing yourself to do it again is another matter.

I've experienced this too a few times, like sparring in a tournament and suddenly, in a flurry of action, finding myself at the guy's back firing punches to the back of his head, having no idea how I managed to get there.

It's a small taste of what's possible in MA when mind, body, spirit (and luck?) are all in alignment.

 

[Monkey Turned Wolf]

Exhibit AH
I hit a really nice sweep on a guy much bigger than me today. Perfectly timed, perfectly executed. He pretty much went flying and it was easy for me to get on top.

I have no idea what I did, how I did it, or how to do it again.

If bjj is like other arts, this is actually an exhibit for how you're getting closer to improving further

 

[isshinryuronin]

I think the focus on "form and philosophy" is a mostly 20th century thing that coincides with commercialization.

It is a 20th century thing, being officially a thing in 1936 in Japan with the formal adoption of "karate-do" as the name of the art. This had nothing to do with commercialization (as karate was mostly taught in the public schools) but was embraced by commercial schools later on.

Competition was also a part of 1930's karate-do but now has grown into a separate branch, sparring in particular with many dojo concentrating on this aspect. The old school self-defense-based karate can be considered a third branch. The emphasis a school places on each of these three branches should be a main consideration in choosing a school to join. While they are all related to some extent, they are really three different things nowadays IMO.

 

[_Simon_]

It is a 20th century thing, being officially a thing in 1936 in Japan with the formal adoption of "karate-do" as the name of the art. This had nothing to do with commercialization (as karate was mostly taught in the public schools) but was embraced by commercial schools later on.

Competition was also a part of 1930's karate-do but now has grown into a separate branch, sparring in particular with many dojo concentrating on this aspect. The old school self-defense-based karate can be considered a third branch. The emphasis a school places on each of these three branches should be a main consideration in choosing a school to join. While they are all related to some extent, they are really three different things nowadays IMO.

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